And Lot, having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about the Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zoar.

But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

And He overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.

brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His wrath and anger)-

And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which He appointed to their fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt,

And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.

[As for] the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon [it], and joy shall be removed from every house.

until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel shall be counted for a forest.

All these met with one accord at the Salt Valley; this is now the Salt Sea.

But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows [its banks], they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.